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My Mother’s Skirts

After my mother died, I decided to gather twine from her frayed skirts and braid them into wreaths. I discovered that each skirt had...
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Killing Trees Softly

They were killing us softly it hurt so bad.  Softly, slowly, exceedingly painful. Think of an open wound left to rot under the sun. Dust and...
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I Read Your Name: A War Requiem

I read your nameWritten on a wounded treeBarely standing on the lakeshoreI gaze at the sadness of its former shadowThat remains in the memory...
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Three Baggies, One for Each of Us

“Did you get it?” Tobi asked, though he already knew the answer just by the look on Jimwel’s face. “Three baggies, one for each of...
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SUPPER AT EMMAUS

In Harmony with Caravaggio Imagine their disbelief: these two men,perhaps fishermen like most of the twelve,beholding the stranger do the familiarblessing, the breaking of bread.One...
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What Are Years?

“It’s now or never,” said Marie, who’s in her mid-twenties, with a rugged face, vivacious and full of urgency. She took her friend’s right...
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Shutter

A fast-clicking cameraCaptures the momentWhen a loaded balloon breaks,The water inside itReasonably in the shapeOf a glass Earth, as wellBefore it quickly fallsApart, leaking...
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Seven Excerpts toward a Theory of Musicology (For Elizabeth)

Our estrangement It begins with a boat trip of course, as all things do, and where else but to Dumaguete, city in the south, year...
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A Christmas Message from the Philippines Graphic Reader!

Available at Lazada, Shopee, and select 7-Eleven outlets 📙 SHOPEE 📘LAZADA Featuring: SHORT STORIES “Don’t Follow Me, I Don’t Even Know Where I’m Going” by Ian Rosales Casocot “The...
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MATERNITY WARD WOES

Zero Hour Doc Hours from here My man went from door to door Offering our pigs and chickens at half the price For any moving vehicle that could...
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